On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Peter Gerwinski wrote:
Hi, everybody!
[...]
What about creating a GNU Pascal distribution with an installation tool which makes it extremely easy to install, and simultaeously does some other configuration tasks (environment variables, RHIDE configuration)? [...]
I would vote for it! Once upon a time I had started myself to write such an installation tool, but then there were several urgent GPC errors which were much more interesting ... ;-)
For DOS or for Linux? (Or for SGI?;-)
I have some preliminary stuff here to package GPC in an RPM. RPM is a popular package manager in the Linux world. It makes upgrading a binary distribution as easy as `rpm -U gpc-YYMMDD.i386.rpm'
The disadvantage is that a source distribution has to contain *everything* to rebuild the compiler, i.e. GCC, so gets kinda big.
/old/ museum
:-) :-)
JanJaap --- With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC1925.